# Chesapeake Charging back operating expenses
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/chesapeake-charging-back-operating-expenses/9689
**Category:** Johnson County, TX
**Created:** [August 6, 2014, 5:18am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/chesapeake-charging-back-operating-expenses/9689 "2014-08-06T05:18:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Helen\_Jeanette\_Griffin](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Helen_Jeanette_Griffin)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2014, 5:18am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/chesapeake-charging-back-operating-expenses/9689/1 "2014-08-06T05:18:29Z")
I did not receive a royalty check this month from Chesapeake. After enquiring, I was told that there was an audit and that I owed money back from 2012. When I asked how much, the lady could not answer how much or if I would receive a check next month. After digging around, I found out that Chesapeake is known for post operating expenses and passing those expenses to the landowner! Also, I know there is a firm in Dallas/Fort Worth area that is trying to get landowners to file lawsuits against Chesapeake.
I am part of the Darby Wells in Johnson County. Are there others that are experiencing what I’m experiencing?
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### Author:  [@Kitchen](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Kitchen)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/chesapeake-charging-back-operating-expenses/9689/2 "2014-08-06T14:22:28Z")
Operating expenses are disallowed from being taken out of royalty payments. Post-production costs may be allowed depending on the language of your lease. The majority of disputes currently in Johnson and Tarrant County involve leases which did not allow for post-production costs, but CHK took them anyways. The other issue is leases that allow post-production costs, but the deductions exceed what is actual and/or reasonable. CHK has been hiding deductions by paying below-market prices on the gas and then showing no deductions on the check, when in fact there were deductions - it was just taken out of the sales price on the gas.
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/chesapeake-charging-back-operating-expenses/9689/3 "2018-08-15T00:25:56Z")